Finding an academic voice in postapartheid South Africa: Systematic Theology at the University of Pretoria
How can an academic voice concerning systematic-theological reflection find expression at a public university in a postapartheid SA? In this chapter, the different research foci of the members of the Department of Dogmatics and Christian Ethics at the UP are presented and interpreted as attempts to...
| Subtitles: | Supplement 2: Theology at the University of Pretoria - 100 years: (1917-2017) Past, present and future |
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| Authors: | ; ; ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2017]
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| In: |
Verbum et ecclesia
Year: 2017, Volume: 38, Issue: 4, Pages: 99-116 |
| IxTheo Classification: | FB Theological education KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBN Sub-Saharan Africa NAA Systematic theology |
| Further subjects: | B
Religious Experience
B ethic of sociality B evolutionary theology B ecclesiological challenges B eco- theology B ethics within Africa B Political Theology B Eco-hermeneutics |
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| Summary: | How can an academic voice concerning systematic-theological reflection find expression at a public university in a postapartheid SA? In this chapter, the different research foci of the members of the Department of Dogmatics and Christian Ethics at the UP are presented and interpreted as attempts to find such a voice as a collection of voices within a society characterised by shifting social-ecclesial and theological landscapes. The specific research foci, namely eco-hermeneutics; evolutionary perspectives on religious experience; an ethic of sociality within postcolonial, pluralist and unequal societies; and ecclesiological challenges and political theology are structured and presented in terms of the hermeneutical question that was posed by Ricoeur, namely D'où parlez-vous? [Where do you speak from?]. Against the background of the vision, objectives and values of the Department, the main objectives of their respective approaches as explication of the speaking from' and speaking to' are outlined. Some of the most important contemporary issues are identified in a conclusion that are, according to them, to be addressed within the Southern African contexts. |
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| ISSN: | 2074-7705 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Verbum et ecclesia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4102/ve.v38i4.1616 |
